Ten student-athletes were named to the President's List, which recognizes students who achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average on at least 12 hours of course work for a semester.

July 11, 2008

HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- - The University of Southern Mississippi has recognized a total of 107 student-athletes for outstanding academic effort during the recently completed spring semester.

Ten student-athletes were named to the President's List, which recognizes students who achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average on at least 12 hours of course work for a semester. There were also 29 student-athletes named to the Dean's List, which recognizes students for a 3.50 or better on a minimum of 12 hours of course work. Sixty-eight others were named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll, which recognizes student-athletes who achieve at least a 3.0 grade point average for the semester.

"Our student-athletes continue to excel on the playing field as well as in the classroom," Director of Athletics Richard Giannini said. "Congratulations to our 10 student-athletes who were named to the President's list this semester. We must give credit to our Student Academic Enhancement Program personnel for the outstanding job they continue to do in guiding our athletes to reach their full potential in the classroom."

The Golden Eagle soccer team led with 17 students on the honor list. The baseball and football teams were next with 16 apiece. Southern Miss' other athletes also had a number of academic scholars recognized: women's track (14), men's tennis (8), volleyball (8), women's tennis (6), men's track (6), softball (6), men's golf (4), women's golf (3), women's basketball (2), and men's basketball (1).

Following is a list of the student-athletes who were recognized for the spring semester.